There has now been a second significant problem at LINX which will be affecting internet traffic throughout the UK, this happened at approximately 19:50. Once again you will be able to see the affects of this by checking their public traffic statistics.
https://www.linx.net/pubtools/trafficstats.html
Our network is designed to close down connections that have problems via the BGP protocol, which is what happened. Traffic is then automatically re-routed over other connections. The network resiliency happened as designed and traffic continued to flow as normal.
There is a considerable amount of network disruption at other UK providers as a result of this problem at LINX, but our service is not affected by this. If you use certain UK providers to connect to us you may see performance adversely affected and also packet loss; this is a problem at the provider/LINX end rather than Blue Square.
In short, if your ISP uses Linx to route traffic through to us then you will experience a drop in perfomance but we must stress that that this not a problem we have any control over and you should contact your ISP for further clarification.